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Word: bout (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holmes '03, dean of the Graduate School of Education, was the master of ceremonies. The evening started with the performance of "Learned Salut", a very graceful and impressive ceremony by Peroy and Garsson, who followed up with a foils bout. There was no regular judging in any of the matches except that of the Lane brothers. The contestants chatted with each other and the audience as they fenced, and the sheer informality of the affair went a long way to making the evening a great success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWORDSMEN STAGE GALA PERFORMANCE IN HEMENWAY BOUTS | 12/7/1929 | See Source »

...spectators or sent out at midnight to those who grind exceeding slow. Nor can one underestimate the possibility of fatal error and the danger of a total waste of the investigator's time if the frothy decaffeinated stuff from Childs' is used. That the conditions of this scientific drinking bout may be better understood--are the tipplers to clear their taste with Old Golds between cups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOTTOMS UP | 12/5/1929 | See Source »

...start the exhibition, Peroy and Grasson will perform "Le Grand Salut" which they will follow up by a bout with the foils. After this, H. C. Cassidy '31 will meet Lieutenant Stephen Conroy who was captain of the Army team while he was at West Point. With the foils once more, Righeimer meets Levis. The fourth, one of the two sabre bouts of the evening, will be between L. C. Winter '31 and H. B. Veatch '32. The two Lane brothers will next meet with the foils...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEADING FENCERS TO MEET ON FRIDAY | 12/4/1929 | See Source »

...round title bout between Mickey Walker, world's middleweight champion, and Ace Hudkins of Nebraska, at Wrigley Field, Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMING,GOING | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...biffed. Then in round eight, Campolo unloosed a right uppercut which hoisted Heeney clean off the canvas. At the ringside, Heeney's wife tore her handkerchief, moaned into it. In the ninth Heeney was twice bumped to the floor, twice wambled up again. The referee, humane, stopped the bout but neglected the ceremony of lifting high the victor's right hand. Campolo, a ceremonious Latin, raised it himself, promenaded about the ring, threw kisses to the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Guaranteed Ferocious | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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